Who Really Invented The Safety Trigger ?

[Reinz]

Here is an old H&R -  Harrington and Richardson, breaktop pocket pistol in 32 S&W .

If you look at the trigger, you will see that it has a trigger safety.


This gun was made in the late 1800's, as I was told.  I have not researched it myself.  The latest may be early 1900.


Years ago a great Weaponsmith (the top of the foodchain among gunsmiths) told me, "when it comes to guns, there is rarely anything new.  It has already been done or tried; and usually by the Germans".

[Richard S]

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Years ago a great Weaponsmith (the top of the foodchain among gunsmiths) told me, "when it comes to guns, there is rarely anything new.  It has already been done or tried; and usually by the Germans".

That certainly rings true.

I believe it was in 1974 that I happened to meet Dr. Wernher von Braun at a reception in Alexandria, Virginia, hosted by one of my corporate clients.  Von Braun, as I recall, had retired from NASA around 1972 and was working at the time for Fairchild Industries in Germantown, Maryland.

It was in some ways almost a surreal experience to meet that man. I could not help reminding myself that had he and his team at Peenemünde in WWII been given a few more years to continue their development of rocketry . . . .